The is my classmate Jose Cruz. He is the other barber in the barbering program with me. This was my…read morefirst manicure. Ms. King is the real deal. Ms. Finnick is fine and Ms. McCreesh is super knowledgeable. Ms. Gowan is nice and very compassionate towards students needs.

In May '12, my school's kindergarten classes were allowed to have our field trip here. Our classes…read moretogether totaled around 35 students and several adults. I was impressed at how organized our tour guide, an employee of the Museum, managed all of us throughout the entire venue. We began our tour with the Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame portion of the Museum. I highly recommend this jewel of southeastern New Mexico particularly if you have any interest in the ranching lifestyle. The displays are well-maintained and seem to do these great icons justice. We continued our tour of the Western Heritage Museum located on the south side, the Virgil and Thelma Linam Collection. But before entering, our students interacted with "Gus," a lifelike figure that has a sort of Q&A session all about the cowboy life. My students thought he was real at first--ha! Our tour lasted approximately 45 minutes, then we watched an educational movie in the Museum's theater. Because we had our short attention span audience and also needed to stay on our bus schedule, we did not view any of the ongoing and temporary exhibits on the north side which are usually set up very nicely. It was an unusually rainy and cold day, so we also did not get to have our snack on the nice back patio area. :( On a slightly different not, the Brian Norwood sculpture outside in the front is amazing. If you have time, right before sunset drive about 50 more minutes south just before the small town of Jal. You'll see more of his artwork from the highway or you can drive up close to it and stand next to these amazing silhouettes. Norwood's artwork and the articles that the Museum has received from the people of this good community are sure to give you a taste of how this county came to be. I really hope to someday see "Sandy," the Columbian Mammoth that was discovered a couple of years ago near the San Simon. I'm leaving out tons of other events that happen annually at the WHM, but you get the idea. Really neat museum & nice, knowledgable staff. Review #55